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Really excellent, your marines look like they came from a Giger's drawing. So dark and evil, they really look like they've spent the last millenium in a spacehulk waiting for revenge....I'm painting these very minis at the moment, very vey inspiring.

Thanks Idstone (sorry for late reply - been out of the hobby for a while).

The paint job was quite experimental and can't recollect exactly what I did. Something along these line are probably not too far from the truth though:

1) Black base coat2) Next coat was silver, red and black. I used the mini as a palette mixing the colors into different shades directly on the mini while the paint was still wet.3) Super heavy washes - Think I used orange (not sure)4) Used a sponge do dab on color (black and silver)5) Some washes again6) Highlights7) Used Pigment powder and pigment fixer8) Final highlights

I thought you might have done some blending on the mini, and it's where I started when I tried to recreate your paintjob, but I didn't spot the silver in the mix. The orange wash was another element I didn't catch, but I can see where it's giving that nice depth of colour to the figures now.

I'm tied up with an Ork project just now, but I'll have another crack at my own version of your work here after that. Great stuff!